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...worst of the bad news was in rents. Many a landlord gave notice of what he thought were reasonable increases-10% to 15%. But many others made spectacular headlines with fantastic increases -100% to 1,000%. Many of these were efforts to evict unwanted tenants.† In New Jersey an apartment-owner addressed his eight tenants: "It is with the greatest of pleasure that I announce . . . I'm giving you one month's notice to vacate, get out, in other words to scram...
Congressman Augustus W. Bennett of New York, back from Washington with his wife & three children, lacked the heart to evict the tenants to whom he had sublet, instead moved in with a friend. The hardship was endurable: in Utilitycoon John Wilkie's home, the Bennetts got "eleven or twelve" spare rooms...
Unbearable Tenant. In Clinton, Tenn., a landlord asked OPA for permission to evict a 300-lb. tenant before she caved in his new porch...
...Takes a Heap o' Livin'. In Akron, Earl Hartung & family had to evict the squawking tenants before moving into the only place they could rent: a chicken coop...
...Last Drop. The calamity howlers were sure OPA would be forced to eliminate price ceilings. But all prepared to fight until water in the last tap had been turned off. When Landlord Paul Sierson got OPA permission to evict 40 families from Villa Italia apartments, tenants began writing letters to the President, hired a lawyer, shrilly predicted that the place would be turned into a hotel if they were thrown out. The new rates, they said, knowingly, would be higher...